The fellow 'prentices at their looms [graphic]

Description

Title: The fellow 'prentices at their looms [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fellow apprentices at their looms
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament 30 Sep. 1747.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: In the weaver's workshop, Tom Idle sleeps, spindle in hand, at his loom beneath a ballad of Moll Flanders, having drunk from a large tankard lettered "Spittle Fields"; Francis Goodchild concentrates on his work while light streams through the window onto ballads of "The London Prentice" and "Whitington, Ld Mayor" on the wall above his head; a cat pulls at Idle's shuttle and the master, Mr. West, enters shaking his cane at his idle apprentice
Description: Title engraved above image.
Series title engraved above image; plate numbering below image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
Sewn into contemporary blue paper wrappers with the eleven other plates in the series, all on wove paper; inscribed "H. Man. 1798" on front wrapper. With a further brown paper dust wrapper and brown paper envelope, inscribed "Hogarth Industrious and Idle Apprentice. H.S. Man 1796, a gift from his father". For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Gifted by Henry Man (1747/48-1799) to his son Harry Stoe Man (1783-1848) in 1796. Jarndyce; December 2019.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.2 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 38.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 H67 747
Collection Title: Plate 44. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 40. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]